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Like is, like, dangerous.
Like is like, vile is vile.
What linguistic pattern makes like is like, and what it makes unlike is unlike".(Whorf, 1940) Central to Whorf's inquiries was the approach later described as metalinguistics by G. L. Trager, who in 1950 published four of Whorf's essays as "Four articles on Metalinguistics".
What sends me, like, over the edge is when "like" is, like, extrapolated beyond the standard "That is, like, so cooool!" to "That is, like, so, like, cool that I'm, like, whoa!" It's the "I'm, like... .. that, like makes me think our kids are developing a, like, major personality disorder.
Like is, like, the valley mantra.
Margaret Atwood, the newly crowned winner of the PEN prize, nailed this in the New York Review of Books in 2003: Asking these kinds of scientists what improved human nature should be like is like asking ants what you should have in your back yard.
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Powerful men really liked being liked by him".
I just liked being liked.
I don't like being like everybody else".
I don't like being like everyone else.
I've always been like that and I like being like that.
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